Saturday, August 2, 2014

Family & Kids Trek to Dudhsagar

Dudhsagar from far away

Visiting the same place
repetitively get bored, however I never get a bore to visit again and again
same place where nature welcomes you by its glory.Yes, this is my third visit within a year to the glorious
Dudhsagar with friend’s family & lovely kids.The first visit was sometime in 2013 peak
Monsoon, second was within 3 months to Tambdi Surla through Dudhsagar.This treknic decided on 2 & 3rd August 2014. It was in unique where the
participants are mix-up in the age group.The planning and execution went very smooth and it was most memorable to kids
and family members.The total team size
was around 17 members.

Dudhsagar on its glory

The planning went well in advance
for booking the train ticket for 17 members.
Indeed the worry about to managing the kids and family. I had witnessed twice about the crowd at
Dudhsagar, it was not so easy take family and kids without proper plan. The group consist my friend’s family of
Shanthi Prasad, Sudhakar, Chandrakanth, Kiran and my beloved daughter.

Rani Chennamma express was the
train to and from for Dudhsagar. While
going, booked the tickets Bengaluru to Hubballi and back is from Londa to
Bengaluru. The reason is; not able get the tickets of direct train Chennai Vasco Express. Everyone was eagerly waiting for date of
departure.

Hubballi to Dudhsagar by Vasco
Chennai Express. Journey in General Compartments

Kulem to Londa by Nizamuddin
Express. Journey in General Compartments

01.08.2014

The 17 member team divided into
four groups and assigned one person as a group leader. The tickets were booked accordingly; the
boarding points were also group wise. Sudhakar
& Shanthi group boarded at City Railway Station and Chandrakanth & Mine
from Yeshwanthapura.

Happy Journey

We all were in-time to board the
train and started our journey towards Hubballi.
It was instructed to all to avoid the outside food, however there was
very less option to opt the hotel. Everyone
had brought enough of food to survive three days during the trek. Took little more time settle down at our
respective bogies and seats. We had the
dinner in the train and retired for the day.

02.08.2014

The train reached the Hubballi on
time around 6 am. The next catchup train Vasco express is around 8 am. We had enough of two hours’ time. We all finished our morning core job at
railway station and finished our morning breakfast Idli & Wada.

Connectivity Train - Vasco Chennai Express

The connectivity train to Dudhsagar
is Vasco express and journey is in general compartment. Hubballi to Dudhsagar
journey is around 2 to 2 ½ hours. We all
were expected tough two hours journey. Luckily,
we all could able to board in the same compartment. Train reached the Hubballi on time, luckily
we all could able to board and get comfortable seat in single compartment. As usual the train was full of passengers and
continued our journey.

Running Track

As the train move towards the
Dudhsagar, at each and every station train got filled by travelers. The decision of boarding from Hubballi is
worked out else it was very tough to board from Londa junction. The enthuse passengers filled the train there
was no place to breath.

Reached Dudhsagar

Reached the Dudhsagar around
11.30 am, the station was full of travelers.
It was looking like the whole train got empty at this station. We all geared up the rain jackets and ready
to venture the falls. I have explained about
our today’s journey and do’s and don’ts on the track.

Team is ready!!!

The journey is begun with rain; the pic
will talk about our golden memories.

Enjoying kids in stream

We continued our journey towards
Sonalium

Beautiful Tunnel

We reached the temple around 4
pm. We have requested the authorities to
allow night camping in the premises since the small kids and women. By grace of the God allowed us and instructed
to keep clean and tidy the entire premises.

Dumped our luggage and relaxed
for some time. The location of the camping is like a heaven. All were busy in their own activities.

Relaxxxxxxx

We prepared the Awalakki for the
evening snacks.

Dinner Preparation

Night dinner was awesome homemade.

Whole night was it raining
heavily.

03.08.2014

Beautiful Landscape on the way

We woke up early morning at 5 am. The rain was pouring non-stop. The nature and monsoon was its on glory. We finished
our breakfast and coffee and packed up to proceed further to Kulem.

Cheeerrrrrrrr

Continued our journey

Long 12 KMs Track Companion

On the way to Kulem, we have enjoyed lot in the stream.

Crossing Streams

Team final dip into stream!!

Reached the Kulem at 3.30
pm. Spent enough good time at
station.

Kulem Railway Station

The train is reached by 5 pm and
we all decided to board in the reserve compartments. The train was already
full, however we all settled wherever we get the seats.

Huge crowd at Dudhsagar Railway Station

Train reached to Dudhsagar
station. The place is like an ocean of
crowd. I had been witnessed twice the
same crowd here, however this time it was more.
By great difficulty we reached the Londa.

Finished our dinner on the station and
boarded the Rani Chennamma express at 8 pm.
We all settled our respective bogies and seats and reviewed our two days
journey.

Reached early morning to
Bengaluru and adieu all to meet sometime again in some other journey. Indeed it was most memorable family trek to
Dudhsagar.